Using Bitwise OR to floor a number

links: Algorithms MOC

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Did you know you can use Bitwise OR operator to floor a floating numbers

For example

let a = 13.6 | 0 // a = 13

How does it work?

• All bitwise operators expect unsigned right shift >>> work on signed 32 bit integers, So bitwise operations will convert a float to integer.

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tags: bitwise-or, javascript

source:

• Using Bitwise OR StackOverFlow